Word: vows
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...like to "stuff it" to British Airways. Why the vitriol? Anyone charging airfares that are five times higher than Ryanair deserves a bit of abuse from time to time. What do you plan on doing with yourself after Ryanair? Making the world a better place ... by taking a vow of silence...
...since 2002? Their behavior surely jived spectacularly with their public espousal of the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s list of moral offenses, which includes "any sexual abuse perpetrated by adults on children or adolescents entrusted to their care." Not to mention that they voluntarily took a vow of celibacy, becoming esteemed champions of moral and sexual virtue as ecclesiastical leaders in their communities...
Coming a day after the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and following another videotaped al-Qaeda vow to stage new attacks, Tuesday morning's foiled terrorist raid on the American embassy in Damascus is certainly cause for U.S. concern. A Syrian interrogation of one surviving attacker will seek to determine whether the incident was in fact the work of al-Qaeda or that of other individuals seeking to add to the carnage. Anti-American feelings are high throughout the Middle East, which in recent months has been gripped not only by the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...next Afghan presidential election is in 2009, and Karzai has said he doesn't plan to run again. But he hedged on that vow at the end of our interview. "If there is an alternative three years from now that I can be comfortable with, who is patriotic, good and deserves to be elected, I would definitely quit in his favor." That's hard to imagine, both because of Karzai's ambitions and because the country's survival depends on the international support that only Karzai can guarantee. But sooner or later, both will run out. Karzai's biggest test...
...accepting the invitation to appear on Celebrity Big Brother). Let's pay tribute to that intellect by employing her rhetorical device of invented quote and response. I imagine her yelling: "I am a loathsome creature who lacks human feeling and has so completely lost touch with Australia that I vow to be silent on its affairs." Yes Germaine, that's a great idea. And start today, will you, for God's sake...